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William Dembski
Date
June 2, 2005
Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

“Smithsonian Distances Itself From Controversial Film”

William Dembski
June 2, 2005
Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

Smithsonian Distances Itself From Controversial Film
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101986.html

By Tommy Nguyen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 2, 2005; Page C01

The controversy over the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History’s decision to allow a documentary based on “intelligent design” — the theory that life is so meticulously complex that a divine intelligence must have designed it — to be played at one of its theaters ended in compromise yesterday: The film will be shown, but the screening fee required by the museum (in this case, $16,000) won’t be accepted and the museum will withdraw its customary co-sponsorship. Read More ›

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William Dembski
Date
June 1, 2005
Categorized
Education

Take a cruise with Dan Dennett, Susan Blackmore, Paul Kurtz, etc.

William Dembski
June 1, 2005
Education

The Center for Inquiry, a leading skeptic society, is putting together a “dream cruise” December 10-17, 2005. Imagine with me putting a dozen extremely bright, ID-enthusiastic, street-witnessing Jesus-freak undergrads on this boat and letting them pass out tracts, ask tough questions during lectures, and engage in assorted mayhem. Ah, if only I had millions…. I guess I’ll just have to go by myself.

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Author
William Dembski
Date
May 30, 2005
Categorized
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design

JW Montgomery weighs in against Orr

William Dembski
May 30, 2005
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
If (as Orr claims) I.D. “looks less and less like the science it claimed to be and more and more like an extended exercise in polemics,” isn’t it strange that it has recently convinced the foremost secular philosopher in England (Antony Flew) to give up his atheism? Read More ›
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Author
William Dembski
Date
May 30, 2005
Categorized
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design

ID in a Wiley Math Textbook

William Dembski
May 30, 2005
Darwinism, Evolution, Intelligent Design
A good Darwinist will imagine 2 or 3 far-fetched intermediate useful stages, and consider the problem solved. I believe you would need to find thousands of intermediate stages before this example of irreducible complexity has been reduced to steps small enough to be bridged by single random mutations Read More ›
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Author
William Dembski
Date
May 29, 2005
Categorized
Intelligent Design

Imagine with me for a moment …

William Dembski
May 29, 2005
Intelligent Design

Here is an email from one of my ID colleagues in the defense industry. Imagine this scenario, but with me instead of Bolton going not to the UN but to the NSF to head a new initiative on ID with lots and lots of tax dollars to back it up. Could this happen? Who would be choking back tears? Read More ›

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Author
William Dembski
Date
May 29, 2005
Categorized
Education, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science

ID and the Charge of Fundamentalism

William Dembski
May 29, 2005
Education, Intelligent Design, Religion, Science
Baylor's eclectic approach to gathering faith-and-learning resources meant they sometimes failed to screen out the culturally militant elements of evangelicalism. In a head-shaking blunder, Sloan's team put William Dembski—point man for the Intelligent Design movement—in charge of a new science-and-religion center. It's hard to imagine any step that would have been more effective in convincing skeptical faculty that Sloan was turning Baylor over to the fundamentalists. Read More ›
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Author
William Dembski
Date
May 29, 2005
Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design

“Smithsonian to Screen a Movie That Makes a Case Against Evolution”

William Dembski
May 29, 2005
Evolution, Intelligent Design

Smithsonian to Screen a Movie That Makes a Case Against Evolution By JOHN SCHWARTZ, as reported in the NYTimes Published: May 28, 2005 The Discovery Institute, a group in Seattle that supports an alternative theory, “intelligent design,” is announcing on its Web site that it and the director of the [Smithsonian] museum “are happy to announce the national premiere and private evening reception” on June 23 for the movie, “The Privileged Planet: The Search for Purpose in the Universe.” For full story go here.